From: Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] What to put in chroot mtab
Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2014 20:32:54 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140801203254.6f1726d7@hactar.digimed.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3566559.YT61t9IyHV@wstn>
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On Fri, 01 Aug 2014 14:07:08 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> I run a couple of chroots on this box to build packages for other boxes
> on the LAN. So far, I haven't worked out what I should
> populate /etc/mtab with in each chroot. Is it enough to "grep
> ext4 /etc/mtab > /mnt/chroot/etc/mtab"? That catches all the physical
> partitions, but I imagine I need to add some /proc, /sys and /dev
> entries as well, but is there a simple formula for doing this?
Do you need anything in mtab in the chroot? I've been using chroots to
build packages for slower machines for years and /etc/mtab has always
been empty or non-existent, with no problems. df gets the hump when run
inside the chroot, but the package building works fine.
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Neil Bothwick
Every morning is the dawn of a new error...
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Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-08-01 13:07 [gentoo-user] What to put in chroot mtab Peter Humphrey
2014-08-01 13:12 ` Peter Humphrey
2014-08-01 13:28 ` Dale
2014-08-01 20:46 ` J. Roeleveld
2014-08-01 21:31 ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2014-08-01 21:33 ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2014-08-01 21:39 ` J. Roeleveld
2014-08-01 21:44 ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2014-08-01 21:46 ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2014-08-02 0:27 ` J. Roeleveld
2014-08-02 0:21 ` J. Roeleveld
2014-08-02 10:08 ` Peter Humphrey
2014-08-01 23:39 ` Dale
2014-08-01 14:56 ` Peter Humphrey
2014-08-01 15:00 ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2014-08-01 15:07 ` Rich Freeman
2014-08-01 15:25 ` Peter Humphrey
2014-08-01 15:21 ` Peter Humphrey
2014-08-01 15:29 ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2014-08-01 16:50 ` Peter Humphrey
2014-08-02 18:28 ` Rich Freeman
2014-08-01 14:02 ` Rich Freeman
2014-08-01 19:32 ` Neil Bothwick [this message]
2014-08-01 20:40 ` J. Roeleveld
2014-08-02 10:38 ` Peter Humphrey
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